| up | (adjective) being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level | - |
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| (adjective) extending or moving toward a higher place | Synonyms: upward |
| (adjective) out of bed | Synonyms: astir |
| (adjective) used up | - |
| (adjective) (used of computers) operating properly | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness | - |
| (adjective) open | - |
| (adjective) getting higher or more vigorous | Synonyms: improving |
| (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: upward, upwardly, upwards |
| (adverb) to a later time | Synonyms: upward, upwards |
| (adverb) to a more central or a more northerly place | - |
| (adverb) nearer to the speaker | - |
| (adverb) to a higher intensity | - |
| (verb) raise | - |
| upbeat | (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: cheerful, pollyannaish |
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| (noun) an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) | Synonyms: offbeat |
| (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
| upbound | (adjective) heading in any direction that is conventionally up | - |
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| upbraid | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: reproach |
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| upbraider | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, reprover |
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| upbraiding | (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, castigation, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over |
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| upbringing | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing |
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| (noun) properties acquired during a person's formative years | - |
| upcast | (noun) air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine | - |
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| upchuck | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, vomit, vomit up |
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| upcoming | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: approaching, coming, forthcoming |
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| upcountry | (adjective) of or coming from the middle of a region or country | Synonyms: interior, midland |
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| (adverb) to or in the interior of a country or region | Synonyms: up-country |
| upcurved | (adjective) curving upward | - |
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| upcycle | (verb) To transform an old product into a newer and more expensive form with a different use | - |
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| update | (noun) the act of bringing someone or something up to date | - |
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| (noun) information or data that updates | - |
| (verb) modernize or bring up to date | - |
| (verb) bring to the latest state of technology or supply with the latest data | - |
| (verb) bring up to date; supply with recent information | - |
| updating | (noun) the act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something) | - |
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| updraft | (noun) a strong upward air current | - |
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| upend | (verb) set, turn, or stand on end | - |
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| (verb) become turned or set on end | - |
| upended | (adjective) turned up on end | - |
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| upending | (noun) turning upside down; setting on end | Synonyms: inversion |
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| upfield | (adjective) away from the defending teams' end of the playing field | - |
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| upfront | (adjective) frank and honest | - |
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| upgrade | (noun) the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components) | - |
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| (noun) hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did | - |
| (noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises | Synonyms: rise, rising slope |
| (noun) a reservation that is improved | - |
| (noun) software that provides better performance than an earlier version did | - |
| (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise |
| (verb) to improve what was old or outdated | - |
| (verb) give better travel conditions to | - |
| (verb) get better travel conditions | - |
| (verb) rate higher; raise in value or esteem | - |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise |
| upheaval | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, hullabaloo, turmoil |
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| (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: uplift, upthrow, upthrust |
| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) | Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, turbulence |
| (noun) a violent disturbance | Synonyms: convulsion, turmoil |
| upheave | (verb) lift forcefully from beneath | - |
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| uphill | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: acclivitous, rising |
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| (noun) the upward slope of a hill | - |
| (adverb) upward on a hill or incline | - |
| (adverb) against difficulties | - |
| uphold | (verb) stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals | - |
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| (verb) support against an opponent | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, continue, preserve |
| upholder | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, sustainer |
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| upholster | (verb) provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers | - |
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| upholsterer | (noun) a craftsman who upholsters furniture | - |
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| upholstery | (noun) the craft of upholstering | - |
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| (noun) covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture | - |
| upkeep | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, maintenance |
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| (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation |
| upland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: highland |
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| (noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: highland |
| uplift | (noun) a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts | - |
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| (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, upthrow, upthrust |
| (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up |
| (verb) lift up or elevate | - |
| (verb) lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces | - |
| uplifted | (adjective) exalted emotionally especially with pride | - |
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| uplifting | (noun) the rise of something | - |
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| uplink | (noun) a transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission | - |
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| upload | (verb) transfer a file or program to a central computer from a smaller computer or a computer at a remote location | - |
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| upmarket | (adjective) designed for consumers with high incomes | - |
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| upmost | (adjective) at or nearest to the top | Synonyms: topmost, uppermost |
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| upper | (adjective) the topmost one of two; upper | - |
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| (adjective) higher in place or position | - |
| (adjective) superior in rank or accomplishment | - |
| (noun) piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot | - |
| (noun) a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression | Synonyms: amphetamine, pep pill, speed |
| (noun) the higher of two berths | Synonyms: upper berth |
| uppercase | (adjective) relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case | - |
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| (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter |
| uppercut | (noun) a swinging blow directed upward (especially at an opponent's chin) | - |
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| uppermost | (adjective) at or nearest to the top | Synonyms: topmost, upmost |
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| (adverb) in or into the highest position | - |
| (adverb) in or into the most prominent position, as in the mind | - |
| uppish | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches |
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| uppishly | (adverb) in a snobbish manner | Synonyms: snobbishly, snootily |
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| uppishness | (noun) assumption of airs beyond one's station | Synonyms: uppityness |
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| uppity | (adjective) presumptuously arrogant | Synonyms: overweening |
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| uppityness | (noun) assumption of airs beyond one's station | Synonyms: uppishness |
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| upraise | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: raise, resurrect |
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| upraised | (adjective) held up in the air | Synonyms: lifted |
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| upright | (adjective) upright in position or posture | Synonyms: erect, vertical |
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| (adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: good, just |
| (adjective) in a vertical position; not sloping | Synonyms: unsloped |
| (noun) a piano with a vertical sounding board | Synonyms: upright piano |
| (noun) a vertical structural member as a post or stake | Synonyms: vertical |
| uprightly | (adverb) in an upright position | - |
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| (adverb) in an honorable manner | Synonyms: honorably |
| uprightness | (noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | Synonyms: rectitude |
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| (noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: erectness, verticality, verticalness |
| (noun) the property of being upright in posture | Synonyms: erectness |
| uprise | (verb) get up and out of bed | Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, turn out |
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| (verb) return from the dead | Synonyms: resurrect, rise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise |
| (verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: ascend, come up, rise |
| (verb) rise to one's feet | Synonyms: arise, get up, rise, stand up |
| (verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: bristle, stand up |
| (verb) ascend as a sound | - |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up |
| uprising | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising |
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| upriver | (adverb) toward the source or against the current | Synonyms: upstream |
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| uproar | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, katzenjammer |
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| (noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: garboil, tumult, tumultuousness |
| uproarious | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: hilarious, screaming |
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| (adjective) uncontrollably noisy | Synonyms: rackety, rip-roaring |
| uproariously | (adverb) in a hilarious manner | Synonyms: hilariously |
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| uproot | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: deracinate, extirpate, root out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out |
| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: deracinate |
| uprooter | (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster |
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| upscale | (adjective) appropriate for people with good incomes | - |
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| upset | (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: broken, confused, disordered |
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| (adjective) mildly physically distressed | - |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried |
| (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: overturned, upturned |
| (adjective) used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win | - |
| (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: overturn |
| (noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: derangement, overthrow |
| (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: overturn, turnover |
| (noun) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging | Synonyms: swage |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: disturbance, perturbation |
| (noun) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning | Synonyms: disorder |
| (verb) disturb the balance or stability of | - |
| (verb) defeat suddenly and unexpectedly | - |
| (verb) form metals with a swage | Synonyms: swage |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: disturb, trouble |
| (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune |
| (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, overturn, tip over, tump over, turn over |
| upsetter | (noun) an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor | - |
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| upsetting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: disconcerting |
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| upshot | (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result |
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| upside | (noun) the highest or uppermost side of anything | Synonyms: top, top side, upper side |
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| upsilon | (noun) the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| upstage | (adjective) of the back half of a stage | - |
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| (adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: aloof, distant |
| (noun) the rear part of the stage | - |
| (adverb) at or toward the rear of the stage | - |
| (verb) steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else | - |
| (verb) move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience | - |
| (verb) treat snobbishly, put in one's place | - |
| upstager | (noun) a selfish actor who upstages the other actors | - |
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| upstair | (adjective) on or of upper floors of a building | Synonyms: upstairs |
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| upstairs | (adjective) on or of upper floors of a building | Synonyms: upstair |
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| (noun) the part of a building above the ground floor | - |
| (adverb) on a floor above | Synonyms: on a higher floor, up the stairs |
| (adverb) with respect to the mind | - |
| upstanding | (adjective) meriting respect or esteem | Synonyms: solid |
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| upstart | (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue |
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| (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright | Synonyms: kip |
| (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: arriviste, nouveau-riche, parvenu |
| (noun) an arrogant or presumptuous person | - |
| upstate | (adverb) in or toward the northern parts of a state | - |
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| upstream | (adjective) in the direction against a stream's current | - |
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| (adverb) toward the source or against the current | Synonyms: upriver |
| upstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in an upward direction | - |
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| upsurge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: surge |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, surge |
| uptake | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, ingestion, intake |
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| (noun) a process of taking up or using up or consuming | - |
| upthrow | (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, uplift, upthrust |
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| upthrust | (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, uplift, upthrow |
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| uptick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| uptight | (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive |
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| uptime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use | - |
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| uptown | (adjective) of or located in the upper part of a town | - |
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| (noun) a residential part of town away from the central commercial district | - |
| (adverb) toward or in the upper part of town | - |
| upturn | (noun) an upward movement or trend as in business activity | - |
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| upturned | (adjective) (used of noses) turned up at the end | Synonyms: retrousse, tip-tilted |
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| (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: overturned, upset |
| upvote | (noun) A positive vote on a social media website | - |
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| (verb) To vote positively on a social media website | - |
| upward | (adjective) extending or moving toward a higher place | Synonyms: up |
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| (adjective) directed up | - |
| (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: up, upwardly, upwards |
| (adverb) to a later time | Synonyms: up, upwards |
| upwardly | (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: up, upward, upwards |
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| upwards | (adverb) spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: up, upward, upwardly |
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| (adverb) to a later time | Synonyms: up, upward |
| upwind | (adjective) towards the side exposed to wind | Synonyms: weather |
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| (adverb) in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing | Synonyms: against the wind, into the wind |
| (adverb) away from the wind | Synonyms: leeward |